{"id":19449,"date":"2015-04-10T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19449"},"modified":"2015-04-10T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T16:45:20","slug":"scolding-elder-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/04\/scolding-elder-perry.html","title":{"rendered":"Scolding Elder Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19450\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/L._Tom_Perry.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19450\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/L._Tom_Perry.jpg\" alt=\"Elder Perry, Utah Jazz fan\" width=\"186\" height=\"248\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elder L. Tom Perry at a Utah Jazz basketball game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As this conservative Protestant publication recognizes, the recently concluded general conference of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> manifested, once again, the Church\u2019s official, straightforward, unreserved, continuing affirmation that\u00a0marriage between men and women is the Lord\u2019s standard, instituted and approved by God:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/mormon.church.remains.steadfast.against.gay.marriage.alternative.lifestyles\/51587.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/mormon.church.remains.steadfast.against.gay.marriage.alternative.lifestyles\/51587.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the strongest statement at the conference came from Elder L. Tom Perry, who has now come under attack for what he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/lifestyle\/faith\/2378770-155\/group-scolds-mormon-apostle-for-disparaging\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/lifestyle\/faith\/2378770-155\/group-scolds-mormon-apostle-for-disparaging<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The expectation seems to be not only that homosexual lifestyles should be legally permitted and that homosexuals should be treated well, but that, even in their own teachings in their own services, churches must avoid any suggestion that they <em>disapprove<\/em> of such lifestyles. \u00a0And the day may not be far distant, in that light, when churches will be expected to trumpet their <em>approval<\/em> of every alternative choice in sexual behavior. \u00a0Failure to do so will, of course, be regarded as an expression of \u201chate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 As this conservative Protestant publication recognizes, the recently concluded general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints manifested, once again, the Church\u2019s official, straightforward, unreserved, continuing affirmation that\u00a0marriage between men and women is the Lord\u2019s standard, instituted and approved by God: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/mormon.church.remains.steadfast.against.gay.marriage.alternative.lifestyles\/51587.htm \u00a0 Perhaps the strongest statement at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scolding Elder Perry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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